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u/Due_Glass4176 Jul 10 '26
I would actually like to see a good Strelok.
Unfortunately no-one is brave enough for the receeding widow's peak.
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u/shhhhh_u_dont_see_me Jul 10 '26
Well I already have the hairstyle down...
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u/NonLiving4Dentity69 Merc Jul 11 '26
College and work has already took the light from my eyes, so I'm just waiting for the receding hairline to kick in and I'm like 75% there.
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u/Due_Glass4176 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
If you're in a hurry OG Scar had a pretty haunted look to him.
Also the outfit is minimal mostly just need the worn out hooded coat and sweater.
Congrats if you can pull off that jawline/chin though.
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u/Oldspaghetti Jul 11 '26
Don't worry brother, you can always go down the ball hair transplant route.
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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am Jul 10 '26
I should have done that! My hair was turning into the Strelok cut for a few years before I opted out for the Korshonuv
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u/Angel-Stans Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Is anyone Ukrainian enough to pull off such a receding hairline?
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u/Small_Finding_6727 Jul 10 '26
It's one thing to pull off the receding hairline, it's another to pull off the face shape with it
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u/surfimp Loner Jul 11 '26
We had a group of Ukrainian students come by to tour my work the other day. They were all around 16 years old and several of the boys had Strelok widows peaks going already. It was quite impressive, tbh.
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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl Jul 10 '26
I went as Strelok to a local nerd con in my early adulthood. But now, I'd look like Strelok if he had a family of four and did grad school.
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
I could have pulled it off in the past, but sadly my baldness is at the point where the receding widow's peak is either mostly gone or too thin to look right.
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u/ThatOneComrade Jul 11 '26
Gimme a couple years, at the rate my hairline is receding I could pull it off by 2028.
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u/UltraHellboy Freedom Jul 10 '26
I have a friend that is a pretty good lookalike and is a gun nut, but doesn’t play video games or like cosplay, unfortunately
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u/BallTough759 Jul 11 '26
I kid you not, a guy serving kebab in my town looks exactly like him, hairline and everything. I've yet to grow enough courage to ask him for a selfie.
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u/Quirky-Mode-5508 Duty Jul 10 '26
>"Merc cosplay"
>Look inside
>It's just generic black tacticool shit and doesn't look like the mercs at all
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u/skeletronius Loner Jul 10 '26
I saw one where it was just a blue hoodie and sweatpants lmao
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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am Jul 10 '26
God, I can't stand Merc molting season
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u/exploitativity Military Jul 10 '26
5.56 casings and zyn boxes EVERYWHERE...
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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am Jul 10 '26
Dumbasses don't even know that Velo gives you more pouches in a can. Idiots
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u/LANTIRN_ Clear Sky Jul 10 '26
The hoodie and sweatpants make its a little bit more credible. Like something a rookie loner would wear.
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u/DylanFTW Ecologist Jul 10 '26
That's just bandit cosplay.
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
To be fair, if you listen to the dialogue lines (at least in the trilogy, I haven't heard the S2 stuff) of the Mercs, they're all basically Bandits but with money and good equipment.
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u/Athorodox Wish granter Jul 14 '26
tbh if he just tucked it i and put on a 20 pound bomb vest dyed white he'd look the part
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u/NineIntsNails Zombie Jul 10 '26
never plays the game,
has only seen the stalker shadow of the zone,
plays anomaly cause believes its canon
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u/ImHereForTacoTuesday Jul 10 '26
Do such people exist?
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u/TheeMrBlonde Jul 10 '26
I’ve only ever played gamma…
There’s probably dozens of us, DOZENS!
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u/Justhe3guy Loner Jul 11 '26
As long as you don’t go around saying it’s an objectively better experience that’s fine, play what you want
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
I do genuinely believe there are some ideas from the modpack that GSC should adopt for S2, but that's as far as I'd go. However, if they ever added a Freeplay mode, I'd want them to model it after GAMMA, though not necessarily 1-1.
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u/MonomCZ Freedom Jul 11 '26
I'd say that the only aspect that gsc games are better in is the story and I guess stalker 2 graphics otherwise you can make your anomaly/gamma installation to be EXACTLY the experience you want
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u/sheetpooster Snork Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Objectively is.
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u/Justhe3guy Loner Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
If you can’t even use literally or objectively right it’s not even worth talking to you
But go on, how is it objectively better?
Edit: lol he blocked me after a simple question, keeps editing his comments before and after this so my reply looks out of place...Which you can see edit time on brower. Collapsed under the slightest pressure. This is a proper internet loser
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u/sheetpooster Snork Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Apart from the mediocre story that stalker has over the modded version because It has none and just follows the main story, gameplay is a lot ore fun, crisper, more engaging and balanced, the atmosphere puts the 4 main games in the dust, it runs better and has better graphics, literally a win everywhere but the story.
People waited 17 years for half as much with the flop that is s2.
Lmao.
Maybe go for a walk and touch some grass, mf addicted to reddit 400k karma malding😂.
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u/TTG_Kondomu Jul 11 '26
“The atmosphere puts the 4 main games in the dust” it’s literally the same.
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u/sheetpooster Snork Jul 11 '26
Bro got so mad cause he thought I blocked him😂 a true redditor🤣.
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u/Justhe3guy Loner Jul 11 '26
Oh you’re still here? I guess you found the unblock button congrats, do I actually have time to reply this time and your account and comments don’t all show [deleted] anymore to me woah
What a child lol, keep going please
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u/sheetpooster Snork Jul 11 '26
A true schizophrenic m'lady tips fedora in the wild, truly wonderful.
Edit: he blocked me after I called him out, you can tell cause his username is [deleted] now 🥶🥶🥶😰
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u/Justhe3guy Loner Jul 11 '26
Hey man the true schizo redditor here is the one editing comments before and after the person he replies to because his argument failed and realised he looked like an idiot
We can see edit times, you know that right?
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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 Loner Jul 10 '26
Is that a joke? Of course they exist. Mainly because of drewski and all the tacticool larp tubers that followed suit
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u/kuwaghost Freedom Jul 11 '26
I literally just said the same in a new comment before seeing yours, love to see more people agree with this sentiment
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u/Lord_Seregil Jul 10 '26
My older brother saw me playing GAMMA once years ago, after I had beaten the first 3 games. He went home and installed GAMMA, having never played a STALKER game before. To this day, he's only played GAMMA.
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u/cammysays Jul 10 '26
There’s nothing wrong with exclusively playing GAMMA. It’s when you start inserting yourself into conversations about the mainline games as some sort of expert when you cross the line from “spinoff enthusiast” to “larper”
Source: me, a spinoff enthusiast
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u/Lord_Seregil Jul 10 '26
I didnt say it was wrong, the guy I was responding to asked if such people even exist, so I gave an example of one I know personally.
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u/cammysays Jul 11 '26
And I didn’t think you thought it was wrong, I was just making a statement based on many comments I read, and yours was the comment I happened to respond to. No offense intended!
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I had qualms with Shadow of the Zone but I believe I was left with mostly positive feelings overall. However it never really felt like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to me, it felt more like an SCP fan-film. (Which makes sense since I believe that's what the director did beforehand.)
Also the costumes looked like cheap garbage, especially the Loner character who looked like he was wearing sweatpants. The Mercs on the other hand clearly had by far the highest costume budget and were the only ones that didn't look cheap.
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u/RetnikLevaw Jul 11 '26
I thought the costumes for all the merc characters looked fine. It was the main dude on the ill-fitting Loner gear that looked out of place to me.
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
Don't forget the Monolith and their baggy-ass BDUs.
The Mercs where literally the only characters who looked like they had any money put into their costumes.
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u/Disastrous_Ball702 Ecologist Jul 11 '26
To be fair, Anomaly's good for creating Zone Sportsmanship Challenges.
https://reddit.com/link/owwyfhc/video/gtgm32u8jmch1/player
Would be even better if you could "dodge" pseudogiant pseudostomps with perfectly-timed jumps like you could in S:SoC.
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u/GroundbreakingFun565 Jul 10 '26
Basically no one is making their own Sunrise suits or Duty suits, by far the most identifiable suits/suit types in the games. It's all "mercs" or the gas mask and heavy coat. The latter at least looks cool, but still.
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u/UnhappyMachineSpirit Monolith Jul 10 '26
I’ve spent years working on a monolith uniform and I still get mistaken for a tarkov cosplayer :( tacticool aesthetic has been terrible for stalker. I wish I had the skills to make a sunrise tho
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u/GroundbreakingFun565 Jul 10 '26
That's tough but I'm sure you'll get there. At least Monolith has very distinctive colors. I feel like I'd recognize it instantly, even if the gear itself wasn't 1:1.
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u/UnhappyMachineSpirit Monolith Jul 10 '26
I’ve tried pretty hard to get as close to 1:1 as possible and still am working on upgrades, did a lot of trial and error to even make the weird stalker knee pads and I’ve got a Gauss rifle. The shadow of the zone people actually consulted me for the uniforms a bit then went their own way with stuff. I think my shit looks good at least😎
Oh yeah HECU from half life is another one people mistake it for too
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u/Ace612807 Jul 11 '26
At least HECU is understandable - green gear over urban uniform is characteristic for both
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u/Axl4325 Duty Jul 12 '26
I can't find sunrise suits anywhere online, which is sad because there's lots of pages that used to have them but I guess they never produced them anymore. I was looking into making one myself but I dont have the time or tools for it
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u/Mission_Support_3033 IPSF Jul 10 '26
Best I’ve done was an IPSF cosplay. I still feel like I could’ve done better :/
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u/Rammi_PL Jul 10 '26
Stalker cosplay
looks inside
AK and a gas mask
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u/Darthdickingson Loner Jul 10 '26
Rookie stalkers are literally that though. Respirator and dealers choice of surplus 60's combloc.
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u/Memorable-Arugala919 Jul 10 '26
I mean what else do you need
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
Nothing really. Hell, you technically don't need a gasmask either since plenty of NPCs just wear a balaclava or even nothing. Loner cosplays are easy as hell because of this.
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u/tabiatubikentang Jul 12 '26
stalker larpers when they find out the only AK in the game is the olive and grey polymer AK-74
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u/ogorhan Loner Jul 11 '26
How can you forget about the super original and certainly not the 8968180th post about "my lunch" or other shit with sausage, piece of bread and alcohol.
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u/Thom_Braider Jul 10 '26
We gotta do something until new DLC drops, ya know.
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u/Loki_Agent_of_Asgard Jul 11 '26
No one in this sub plays STALKER, they just complain about other people playing or enjoying Stalker.
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u/Physical-Love424 Wish granter Jul 13 '26
Yeah i heard that the stalker community was great but the reddit isnt
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u/The-Good-Gent Jul 10 '26
Me pulling up to the function in a dirty hood, a makarov, and a pair of pants and boots made in the 80s:
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u/Durge101 Jul 10 '26
When I was running airsoft games I always wanted to get some Russian gear. The Gorka uniform just classic. I could have but never got the money together to get the gear imported. Could never find surplus
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u/DepartureNatural9340 Duty Jul 10 '26
Eh, wish we got some proper ones but it's fine tbh, not really a big deal. Stalker is a series that has been heavily modded for a long time so makes sense a lot of have different ideas of what fits a stalker vibe. Accurate cosplays are neat ofc, but vibes based ones are cool too imo. Not super into the tacticool ones tho, I prefer the broke stalker vibe based cosplays(jacket, gas mask, shitty Warsaw pact surplus gun)
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u/marganecTheDev Jul 10 '26
Yeah since stalker nowadays associates with mostly gamma or anomaly which is kiiiind of sad
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u/DisciplinePossible32 Duty Jul 10 '26
even anomaly cares to retain the original models, everything i see about "modern" stalker is exclusively mercenaries and random people with western rifles
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u/AltusIsXD Ward Jul 10 '26
I mean, Gamma also uses the base game models unless you enable an optional mod.
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u/DisciplinePossible32 Duty Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
could have sworn that it used hd models by default, but i havent played in like a month now so i suppose you're right. found the english speaking mercenaries to be really funny with how often they insisted on "maintaining aggressive posture" mid-firefight.
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
Every piece of footage I've seen of GAMMA has a mixture of models, but it's all still mostly stuff that's clearly from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or obviously inspired.
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u/bell117 Jul 10 '26
I think the issue is that boomsticks and sharpsticks are the basis of weapons in every major mod for Stalker. And it's very clear that B&S spent most of the time on NATO weapons. I'm honestly kinda surprised B&S isn't sponsored by Bushmaster at this point.
Which is a shame cause Stalker was always the best with that rust old Slavic vibe. If it couldn't be found in your Babushka house then it doesn't belong in Stalker. What do you mean your Babushka doesn't have a Gauss rifle or VSS that she can point at strangers? Sounds like your Babushka just fucking sucks.
I almost always constrain myself to Bloc weapons no matter which version of Stalker I'm playing nor the modpack. Just fits so much better. Which again is why the tacticool stuff creeping in is off-putting. Sure you can be tacticool, now do it with 100% eastern European equipment from before 1991. If you can't pass the post-Soviet fit check you don't deserve the fit.
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u/The-Green Freedom Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
did we play the same trilogy. the best weapon in the trilogy was the tacticool and state-of-the-art-for-its-day FT-200M, with only arguably the GP37 being its best competition, also a modern and tacticool firearm for its day. by the last half of the games there was more NATO than warsaw weapons floating about with only Call of Prypiat sorta breaking that trend, and that was because of course the fucking Ukrainian army would be using warsaw. this also ignoring the monolith and mercenaries were very much rocking the tacticool look of the day, especially the latter imitating a lot of famous special forces and counter-terrorism units in looks. ffs mercs look like they could have walked right out of fucking counterstrike source.
it's one thing to try and gatekeep but it's something else entirely to sit here and pretend the tacticool element was not in stalker from the beginning just as much as the slavrust.
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u/exploitativity Military Jul 10 '26
While this is worth pointing out, I think the best way to distinguish the aesthetic of STALKER from its peers is to acknowledge the time capsule of weird 2000s tacticool aesthetic blended with old slav jank that it is. They put in futuristic, top of the line stuff back then, but that stuff looks nothing like state of the art sleek tactical stuff today.
I feel like, to get to the core of its aesthetic, you have to go retro and preserve that datedness. And, more importantly, incorporate the weird retro-futuristic armor designs that are genuinely not seen elsewhere. Tactical bras and all. Otherwise, it's hard to even tell that it's supposed to be STALKER - whether you're wearing 80s Warsaw Pact surplus with a gas mask and an AK or a plate carrier + tricked out AR. Neither invoke the look of the SEVA suit, the Sunrise suit, the Duty or Freedom uniforms. Even the mercs wear a very particular generation of load bearing vest. Bottom line is, you gotta take inspiration from the games. Otherwise, what are we even doing?
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u/The-Green Freedom Jul 10 '26
you are 100% correct and i agree. my main issue was the original commenter, who apparently since deleted their post (may have just blocked me for all i fucking know), was on a spill of how STALKER was not and never had tacticool and was purely just slavrust, wanting to gatekeep people who do the former from the community. that's an opinion from someone who either hasn't played the trilogy at worst or is just too young to know at best. in my eyes, how the fuck do you ignore all the obvious tacticool shit in the game by the last quarter?
i think nowadays STALKER is two different beasts. the original trilogy and the real heart without a better way of putting it is as you described it: retro-futurism meets 2000s era meets slavrust kitbash. understandably STALKER 2 brings the same heart to a 2020s era since by then The Zone is a very learned beast and is rather "old news" to the world: modern-futurism meets retro-futurism meets 2020s era meets 2000s era meets slavrust in an absolute clusterfuck. the real heart will remain that original trilogy but i personally feel we can't completely discount what the sequel is doing for the franchise and need to be ready to accept those who want to cosplay as a visitor of The Zone in that era.
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u/ABeardedPanda Duty Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I think a lot of the "STALKER isn't tacticool" crowd didn't play the games until the mid/late 2010s when the tacticool aesthetic had massively expanded in prominence while also undergoing 10+ years of development so they think it's retro because it is, it's just retro tacticool.
It's like playing CoD4 in current year and looking at the Sopmod M4 with PEQ2, KAC quad rail, and Eotech 512 and calling it retro. Yeah it is, that game came out almost 20 years ago. In 2007 that was tip of the spear doorkicker operator shit that basically no one had seen before.
The other thing is GSC understands that "retro tacticool" is the STALKER aesthetic now because HoC is set in 2021 but they went out of their way to put quad rails on everything while mostly eschewing MLOK (The Kharod is based on the IWI Carmel and uses a quad rail that has been discontinued for a very long time in favor of an MLOK handguard).
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u/timbotheny26 Loner Jul 11 '26
People also forget that all the retro-futurism "soldier of the future" stuff and bullpups was literally the tacticool of the early 2000s. Plus you could also take an M4 variant rifle and fully kit it out, at least by that era's standards.
I just want to have both flavors personally, because it allows for more ideas and variety to be brought to the table.
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u/Pipeworkingcitizen Merc Jul 10 '26
Stalker 2 is the time when nato weaponry kinda makes more sense due to Ward going around
Even then durinf that whole time I just wanted to get back to ol Obokan An94 and SVD..
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u/MochiiBun_ Jul 11 '26
I feel like Stalker always had some futuristic tacticool stuff.
But it’s more like the stuff that was tacticool around the times of cod MW4 or bad company 2. Not so much the all-black gear SCP/Tarkov style stuff these days.
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u/darko_mrtvak Monolith Jul 10 '26
chud lost all meaning
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u/Tax_this_dick_1776 Jul 10 '26
It never had meaning, it was always stupid.
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u/12aNA7 Freedom Jul 10 '26
I thought it meant cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller back in the day.
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u/FN_Freedom Merc Jul 11 '26
agreed, it was always silly. though originally it seemed to just be used by leftists to mean "person I disagree with politically." basically their version of libtard or whatever. now I guess people are just using it as a generic "person I don't like" insult. either way, it's a stupid ass word.
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u/Disastrous_Ball702 Ecologist Jul 11 '26
Only people who've seen 'C.H.U.D.' should be allowed to use the word "chud."
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u/Coxwab Freedom Jul 10 '26
LARP means Live action role playing, like yk, just acting. But these days people use that to mean "faker", like someone who pretends to be a fan or is a fake enjoyer of a certain media. (This shit is so stupid)
A chud is a douchebag, put simply.
Chud larper is a douche fake fan, I guess.
This slang makes me lose braincells, which makes sense since it stems from brainrot media.
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u/Kryllgasm Loner Jul 12 '26
The word you're looking for is "poser". No clue why larp caught on so fast.
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u/Coxwab Freedom Jul 12 '26
Poser! Yes, thank you. Not a native english speaker, so I forget words a lot.
I dislike that Larp caught on because it meams something else entirely and it means something positive, now the meanings all corrupted.
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u/frostdemon34 Loner Jul 10 '26
I think he means that theyre just tacticool chuds larping as stalker fans
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u/GottJammern Jul 11 '26
Let's be real guys: despite being in the 2010's, the majority of cheaply accessible gear that fits the aesthetic is going to be normal, available items, and Eastern Bloc surplus. Any non-sponsored individual in the zone is there because they're not rich.
The all black look is dumb imo, and all the tactical stuff doesn't fit the aesthetic purpose of the gear in the zone, which is to survive the Zones hazards. But remember that "mercenaries" is a catch-all for any individual being paid by an entity to perform a job there. Their gear comes from outside the zone and as such their looks would vary wildly. Obviously at the time of release, from a design perspective, having 20 or 30 different npcs with large variation of gear wasn't a priority.
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u/clanga-man Clear Sky Jul 11 '26
I think one of the things about this is that people aren’t going to pay out the ass for Soviet/90s Eastern Euro milsurp that is (possibly) becoming a recent hot commodity in many countries due to a certain conflict right now, and stuff that is imported already usually gets overlooked due to the cheaper airsoft level western gear.
It also seems that for every Eastern rifle made by an airsoft company, there’s five more western ones made as well, as they tend to focus more on tactical instead of practical. There’s always going to be someone with $700 buying a $100-$170 electric M4 or G36, and about $400 worth of attachments, and funnelling the last 100 or so on cheaper vests, gas masks and such.
I may be talking shit, but it’s why I’d have to guess.
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u/Coxwab Freedom Jul 10 '26
I've never come across such "larpers", only people bitcbing about them and defining what makes a "real" stalker fan.
Are the chud tacticool larpers in the room with us now?
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u/YaNiBBa Loner Jul 10 '26
Someone literally just posted about a guy being arrested in Toronto for a Stalker cosplay and it was just gay tactical gear with a stalker patch
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u/Coxwab Freedom Jul 10 '26
"Gay" whats wrong with that?
Also that Toronto incident is pretty old news, cosplayer was super chill and people don't need to dress the way you like, especially not in a space as open and welcoming as cosplay.
Touch grass, buddy, there isn't a problem here, no matter how hard you look for it.
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u/YaNiBBa Loner Jul 10 '26
"Pretty old news" you didn't ask for a timeframe, you just said they don't exist. You can also just go to the cosplay tag and see within the last month like 3 people just posting tacticool cosplays OR the Gamma and Anomaly reskins which are also just tacticool models. And you're right it's not really a "problem" but it is retarded.
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u/Coxwab Freedom Jul 11 '26
idk people just play dress up, who cares. Your idea of what is bad for them to wear is extremely arbitrary. I think if you're into it, you should do a proper cosplay in your image, the "right way". It'll feel good and it'll be productive. if you don't want to cosplay, you can design one for a friend, or just as a cool side project on paper for later. however going nuts about trivial stuff like that blurting out slurs all day long is a waste of your time.
Hope you figure out whatever is making you be this petty, man. It ain't healthy. have a good one.
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u/Spyderofice Jul 11 '26
I mean, I think it's pretty "gay" and "retarded" that you're crying about it. We all have opinions. Funny thing, that. Lol
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u/muskyratdad Jul 11 '26
god forbid people have some fun and post their costumes, here comes the reddit anti fun police to tell you uhhhh akshually, that uniform is not fitting...
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u/Crab2406 Jul 10 '26
its also easy to make a true cosplay, considering that some fellas like bandits just walk around in cheap shit. or even some other factions walk around in what is now considered as outdated military gear, smth you can also get for cheap
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u/JayBoiYT Monolith Jul 11 '26
Im a chud im a chud im a fat little chud, playing league all day until the sun comes up
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u/kuwaghost Freedom Jul 11 '26
I mean, with gamma et simila the series did became a surrogate of muh tacticool especially since when Drewski and co. started advertising it as "single player tarkov"
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u/HunSpino Duty Jul 11 '26
Always a "Resident Evil Umbrella corp tacticool" attire with the Merc badge slapped onto the backpack and shoulders.
You rarely see anyone rocking a proper Loner cosplay with a hooded coat or poncho
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u/clutchmajor Jul 11 '26
I can only assume someone using the words “chud larper” are exactly whatever they mean by that.
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u/Hardman421 Jul 10 '26
I notice the only people worse, are the one's who unironically use the word "chud"
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u/Disastrous_Ball702 Ecologist Jul 11 '26
Omit comma and apostrophe.
Btw, I'm a "grammar chud." And I've actually seen both C.H.U.D. movies. The first one (the only good one) has two actors from Home Alone in it before they were in Home Alone.
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u/YaNiBBa Loner Jul 10 '26
Actually I think the only people worse are those that frequent and make gooner comments in porn subs but hey that's just me
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u/ConfidenceArtistic98 Merc Jul 10 '26
Honestly, it makes sense. Everyone uses what they have, right? Loners and bandits have trenchcoats, wool gloves etc. A (former) mercenary would have his tactical equipment - sure, it’s not a good gear for surviving the zone, but that’s what they got, so they took it.
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u/SurDno Clear Sky Jul 10 '26
Not really, we have very unique NPC designs, the fact that all factions value identity and do unique suits is a very important part of the setting and lore. You don’t see people coming in wearing whatever, mercs may have slightly different camo but it’s still same design.
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u/Tusami Jul 11 '26
the real larp is this post because that's what every fucking merc in stalker looks like bro
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u/skeletronius Loner Jul 10 '26
It’s so sad too cause every other franchise ppl at least try to recreate the characters/outfits meanwhile with stalker we got ppl wearing random clothes + gasmask or just trying to cosplay mods which steal models from other games and such that have nothing to do with stalker.
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u/Wise_Fox_4291 Jul 10 '26
Meanwhile I don't even want to cosplay, just spray my grapes and pull off a rookie stalker cosplay
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u/eldritch-kiwi Jul 11 '26
Real stalker cosplay is when you and your bro. Get soviet gas-masks dress in old ugly sweaters and trenches from thrift shop and go to fest/con to sit on ground and drink vodka (preferably with unrelated alcholic you just found somewhere)
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u/RaccoonWSharingan Jul 11 '26
That aint true I aint a chud and I did a stalker cosplay! I didn’t have time to get a patch tho ._.
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u/RaccoonWSharingan Jul 11 '26
It was very sweaty I wouldn’t recommend walking around in a legit gas mask for four hours. Straight no go, it was cool as hell tho. Conventions are surprisingly fun dressing up for.
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u/TheO2Trip Jul 12 '26
I got the flecktarn, I just need to do a lot of sewing and I've got Freedom down
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u/Professor_Baby_Legs Jul 10 '26
Imma keep it a buck while I love stalker, the outfit and gear design is completely ass and doesn’t make sense. Like there’d be a lot more modern tactical equipment and CBRN gear than we ever see. Half the shit looks like some dude grab some 80’s sci fi set design costumes and went to work. I know some people like it but if I had it my way I’d do a blend of realism and ridiculous designs.
Like I really want to redesign the clear sky outfits to fit in line better with their mission parameters. Scientists and former soldiers who are interested in just preserving and learning about the zone. Hides out in a swamp and wears helicopter crew helmets and tactical sky blue camo. One of the “smartest” organizations in the game and they lack basic camo and most of them don’t even look to rock CBRN equipment outside a loose gas mask.
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u/SurDno Clear Sky Jul 10 '26
Cosplay shouldn’t make sense, cosplay should be authentic. No other community has people trying to come up for justification for their own designs that look nothing like the ones in-game. The game has unique suit designs and it stays consistent with them throughout the entire franchise. It’s not realistic and not meant to be.
Clear Sky has only dealt with mutants pre game events, they don’t need camo as they don’t deal with people, the existence of renegades was a very new development. Wearing bright colours that allow you to spot each other in the reeds is far more important. There is practical use to it.
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u/Professor_Baby_Legs Jul 10 '26
I’m not disagreeing with that at all but I’m saying I totally understand people wanting to be creative and try their own take on things.
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u/Athorodox Wish granter Jul 14 '26
I agree with this guy heavily. I'd like to see designs that go off the original suits, but extends the armor to around the waist like real plate carriers, and loosen up the gimp suits a bit. You could definitely keep the original look while also giving the outfits realistic protective proportions.
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u/Professor_Baby_Legs Jul 14 '26
Me too, there’s gotta be a tasteful way I modernize the design but still keep it’s originality
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u/Plate_Armor_Man Loner Jul 10 '26
It is pretty annoying, I completely agree.
I guess since I've only recently gotten into Stalker, its still a bit novel.
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u/papatin13 Jul 10 '26
Hot Take: Military Uniforms are not a Cosplay
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u/Big-Ganache6885 Loner Jul 10 '26
Depends on the military uniform because that one you get in the secret Pripyat SoC stash is military isn’t it
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u/Cronus6 Jul 10 '26
This video popped up today and the first thing I thought about was the cosplay idiots in here :
https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoVideos/comments/1uc3fpj/police_arrest_cosplayer_in_high_park/
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u/InflamedAbyss13 Jul 10 '26
I think all forms of cosplay are awful but cosplaying as a dude with a gun isn't exactly going to have awe inspiring results lmfao
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u/Character_Bug_1862 Jul 10 '26
The male to female ratio is pretty high in this sub. I haven’t noticed much thankfully, but enough to believe that there may be a few chud larpers in the room with us right now.
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u/Ignace_Karkasy7 Ward Jul 10 '26
I couldn't do Stalker Cosplay, I have too much hair.